In an attempt to reassure Soviet leaders about election-year speeches on detente, Averell Harriman met with Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, to tell him that statements made during the heat of a campaign did not necessarily become policy. Mr. Harriman, who is serving as a foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter, said Mr. Brezhnev was upset over anti-detente and anti-Soviet statements.
Sweden’s Prime Minister resigned following a decisive defeat for his Social Democratic Party in parliamentary elections. Olof Palme, who had held office since 1969 and whose party had been in power for 44 years, was asked to remain as head of a caretaker government until the new Prime Minister, expected to he Thorbjorn Falldin, officially takes over on October 4. Palme resigned after elections the day before had ended four decades of his party, the Socialdemokraterna.
Stocks made their biggest single-day gain in Stockholm history after the Social Democratic Party ended 44 years in power. Prime Minister Olof Palme handed in his resignation to the speaker of parliament, Henry Allard. The victorious coalition of the Center. Conservative and Liberal parties held separate meetings, and a spokesman said Thorbjoern Faelldin. the sheep rancher who will become prime minister. would call them together soon for discussions on forming a government.
Premier Dom Mintoff’s Socialist Labor Party won a three-seat victory over the Nationalist Party in weekend elections in Malta, assuring the Socialists another five-year term governing the Mediterranean island nation. The Socialists will have 34 seats and the Nationalists 31 in the House of Representatives. The Socialists also had a three-seat majority before the election. Mintoff has banned the U.S. 6th Fleet from Malta, has refused to allow the Soviet Union to open an embassy, has proclaimed a policy of nonalignment and has turned to Libya and China for aid. He was expected to continue those policies.
Yugoslavia’s President Tito, 84, is recovering from his acute liver ailment at his favorite hunting resort at Belje, the government announced. Tito had canceled all official functions and state visits after doctors diagnosed his illness September 8. The problem with his liver was not disclosed.
The famed Orient Express, crowded with tourists traveling from Istanbul to Paris, collided with a commuter train near Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, killing at least 18 and injuring about 40. Authorities said the Orient Express had sped through a stop signal. Those killed were the drivers and codrivers of both trains, plus 14 passengers aboard the commuter train.
Two Lithuanians who hijacked a Soviet airliner to Turkey six years ago have asked for asylum in the United States but no decision has been made on the request, the Immigration and Naturalization Service said in Washington. Pragas Brazinskas and his son, Algirdas, had been in a Turkish prison until early this year. They were freed and were on their way to Canada when they jumped plane in New York.
The British Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Fittleton capsized and sank after a collision with a much larger frigate, HMS Mermaid in the North Sea. While 32 of the 44 members of the Royal Navy Reserve on board were saved, 12 drowned in the worst peacetime accident involving the reserve.
The Metroliner officially opens in Brussels. King Baudouin inaugurated Brussels’ very first full-scale heavy metro line, transitioning the city away from its underground pre-metro tramways. It connects De Brouckère to Merode, before splitting into two branches towards Tomberg and Beaulieu.
Beirut was torn by the worst night of fighting in two weeks as yet another Lebanon cease-fire effort failed. Battles grew along other Muslim-Christian fronts with the casualty toll for the latest 24-hour period put at 110 killed and 150 wounded. Syrian artillery and tanks, about 12 miles east of Beirut on the Beirut‐Damascus highway near Sofar, shelled Palestinian and Lebanese Moslem positions in the mountains area of Ain Tura. The Palestinian and leftist Muslim positions in the mountains north of Sofar represent a key issue in the cease‐fire talks. Mr. Arafat rejected out of hand a demand by the Syrians and by Mr. Sarkis that those forces be withdrawn. He demanded a Syrian withdrawal from Sofar instead.
Syria charged today that President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt was personally responsible for the failure of new efforts toward a cease-fire and settlement of the crisis in Lebanon. The Syrian attack, in an editorial in Al Baath, the publication of the ruling Baath Party, headed by President Hates al‐Assad, was one of the sharpest attacks on Mr. Sadat issued in Damascus in recent weeks since this country and Egypt agreed formally in June to stop castigating each other in public. Mr. Sadat, the editorial said, bore the responsibility for the collapse of talks last Friday and yesterday at Chtaura, Lebanon, where the crisis was discussed by Elias Sarkis, the Lebanese President‐elect, Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Vice Air Marshal Naji Jamil, President Assad’s confidant and Deputy Defense Minister, and Hassan Sabri el‐Kholy, the Arab League’s mediator.
A $20 billion effort to clean up radioactive material and other debris on Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean will be started in March, 1977. by U.S. troops, according to a spokesman for the Defense Nuclear Agency. The atoll, which consists of 40 islands clustered around a lagoon about 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii, was the site of the first American H-bomb test. The 27-month clean-up drive will enable about 400 native inhabitants to return to the atoll after being removed in 1947.
A major loan for Mexico by the International Monetary Fund has been arranged, and the United States will extend short-term credit until the I.M.F. funds are available. The package, which will be used to help Mexico overcome balance of trade problems, will total about $1.2 billion. The United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve are to make about $600 million available for the loans.
Panamanian soldiers clashed with rock-throwing university students demonstrating against the government of Gen. Omar Torrijos. National guardsmen fired tear gas onto the grounds of the National University and hit several students with rubber truncheons. The demonstrations started September 10 when high school students protested against increased food prices, and disturbances continued last week. Monday’s protests were the first that involved university students.
Uganda announced a commission of inquiry into the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe Airport and the case of missing hostage Dora Block. Mrs. Block, a 75-year-old grandmother of dual Israeli-British citizenship, was reported by a British diplomat to have been in a Kampala hospital several hours after the Israelis struck July 4 at Entebbe to free more than 100 hijacking hostages held by Palestinian guerrillas. She then vanished and is feared dead.
“Concrete results” were reported by Ian Smith, the head of Rhodesia’s white minority government, as he returned to his country following talks with Secretary of State Kissinger in South Africa. In a broadcast interview, Mr. Smith said he thought that there was now a chance for a settlement of the 11-year-old Rhodesian problem.
Prime Minister John Vorster said today that the proposals put to Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of Rhodesia by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger had laid the basis for a solution to the Rhodesian crisis, which formed the major topic at weekend talks between the three men in Pretoria.
Reporting on his talks in South Africa, Secretary Kissinger met with Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. The Zambian leader made no public comment on what Mr. Kissinger told him about his meeting with the Prime Ministers of Rhodesia and South Africa, which Mr. Kissinger earlier had said resulted in “considerable progress” on the questions of black rule in Rhodesia and South-West Africa.
Playboy magazine releases an interview with U.S. presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, which includes the quote, “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust” and that he has “committed adultery in my heart many times,” but that “God forgives me for it.” The remark, unusually candid for a Presidential aspirant, was made in the course of an interview to be published in Playboy magazine’s November issue. It was made in the context of an extended discussion of Mr. Carter’s religious beliefs in which he asserted that his own moral standards would not lead him to try to impose stricter laws on private behavior. The Democratic Presidential candidate is quoted as saying that members of the Southern Baptist Church, which is his faith, believe in “absolute and total separation of church and state.”
Taxes for middle-income families would go up if Jimmy Carter’s proposals were enacted, President Ford contended. The President, ignoring Mr. Carter’s statement on Sunday he would never raise taxes for the working people, said that his administration would seek tax relief for moderate wage earners.
“The Democratic Whistlestop” train left Pennsylvania Station in New York carrying Jimmy Carter on a two-day trip through three Eastern states. Mr. Carter, at every stop, focused on past presidents — honoring the Democrats and castigating the Republicans — and offered himself as a candidate out of the best tradition of his party.
The Ford-Carter debate will be shown by all three commercial networks and the Public Broadcasting System Thursday despite reservation over arrangements made by the league of Women Voters. A statement by CBS News president Richard Salant complained about the participation of representatives of the candidates in the selection of the journalists who will question Mr. Ford and Mr. Carter.
Army financial officials said a continuing investigation had boosted to $220.3 million the amount of funds mishandled by Army bookkeepers during fiscal 1971-73. This represents a $15 million increase since the Army reported last April that four senior officials had been reprimanded for accounting failures that led to overspending and over-contracting $205.3 million in electronics, ammunition and other materiel. The items were bought on behalf of South Vietnam and other foreign countries but they had never ordered them.
Nearly two-third of Americans surveyed in a Gallup Poll believe that parents bear a major responsibility for the controversial test score decline in the country’s schools because they have not provided enough attention, concern and supervision for their children.
A bill that would designate 467,240 acres of Joshua Tree National Monument as a wilderness area is expected to pass the House of Representatives today. A Wilderness Society spokesman, testifying before the House Interior subcommittee in favor of the bill, said the land “offers some of the most spectacular scenery in Southern California.” The bill also would designate wilderness areas in Saguaro National Monument, Arizona; Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado; Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona, and Haleakala National Park, Hawaii.
Senate-House conferees have completed work on legislation to govern development of the nation’s offshore oil and natural gas resources. The bill includes provisions that would establish new procedures for leasing of offshore drilling tracts and set stricter environmental standards for offshore energy production. The bill also would establish a fund to help coastal states deal with the impact of offshore drilling and set up a special fund for cleaning up oil spills resulting from offshore development. The bill is awaiting final legislative approval from both houses of Congress.
The United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. resumed formal contract talks for the first time since the auto maker was struck last Tuesday. But they met for less than two hours and then recessed until today. Neither side reported progress. Meanwhile, 1.600 hourly workers at Ford’s engine plant in Windsor, Ont., and at least 2,000 U.S. workers at supplier firms received layoff notices because of the strike of 170,000 UAW members. The union has called its demand for reducing time on the job the best way to create more employment in the auto industry and the key to a settlement at Ford.
A federal task force recommended that the Cuban Refugee Program, which has helped 650,000 Cubans fleeing the Castro regime resettle in the United States during the last 15 years, be phased out within the next five years. The report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said fewer than 5,000 refugees still receive special cash grants and that number is expected to shrink by 1,500 persons a year during the next two years. The program has spent $1.1 billion since February, 1961.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare said it was taking action against seven Northern and Western school districts for alleged civil rights violations. The districts have been informed they may request a hearing before any cutoff of federal education funds, HEW said. School districts involved are No. 89 in Maywood, Illinois, city schools in River Rouge and Saginaw, Michigan, city schools in Lima and Princeton, Ohio, the Ontario District in Oregon and Mt. Adams School District No. 209 in White Swan, Washington.
A third suspect in an alleged plot to kill Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) was released on personal recognizance in Springfield, Massachusetts, pending trial on September 30. Robert E. White, 42, of Springfield — who was questioned last year by the Secret Service after allegedly making derogatory statements about politicians — had been held on $25,000 bail as the alleged leader of the plot. Codefendants David J. King, 31, of Springfield, and Sandra R. Rondeau, 37, of nearby Westfield, were released on personal recognizance shortly after their arrests September 11.
Senator James Buckley was endorsed by Abraham Hirschfeld, who ran last in the five-candidate New York Democratic Senatorial primary. However, the Senator will not be supported by his Republican colleague in the Senate, Jacob Javits. Two years ago, Mr. Buckley refused to endorse Mr. Javits.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hold hearing next week to determine whether Mayor Frank Rizzo of Philadelphia should face a recall election on November 2. Attorneys for Mr. Rizzo filed an appeal with the high court today, seeking to overturn a ruling by Judge David Savitt of Common Pleas Court that the voters have a right to try to oust the Mayor. The state Supreme Court, in an order signed in. Pittsburgh, said it would take jurisdiction of the case and conduct hearings in Philadelphia on September 29. Mr. Rizzo, a former city police commissioner, has been accused of covering up the city’s budget crisis prior to his landslide re‐election last November, and of padding the city payrolls with patronage appointees. He has also come under fire for allegedly violating the rights of citizens and businessmen who disagree with him.
A new Book of Common Prayer will soon be used in the Episcopal Church. The House of Bishops almost unanimously approved revisions in the book, the most extensive in more than 400 years, at the church’s convention. The House of Delegates, the lay and clerical part of the convention, approved a different set of revisions last Saturday. Final action was delayed until either the delegates accept the bishops’ revisions or a committee works out a compromise.
Prime rate reductions were announced by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and the First National Bank of Chicago. The two banks, both among the largest in the country, lowered their rates to 6¾ percent from 7 percent. None of the other major banks followed their lead. Many were expected to wait until Citibank decides what it will do.
Radiation leaks from the Trojan nuclear plant in Rainier, Oregon, have occurred 26 times since the facility opened in December, but a power company spokesman said each incident involved an amount of radiation smaller than that emitted by a radium dial wristwatch. The explanation followed a request from the state’s energy director for more information on the leaks. The last one happened Thursday.
Unexpected opposition by California to oil deliveries by tanker to Los Angeles from the Alaska pipeline has forced a stunned Washington to reconsider some of the basic assumptions about the long fought-over pipeline. Environmental concerns and a projected West Coast oil surplus have forced Washington to think about such alternatives as exporting the oil to Japan or bringing it through the Panama Canal to refineries.
“The Captain and Tennille” television musical-variety show debuts in US (ABC).
Comedian Dick Van Dyke was given his own variety series with the premiere on NBC of “Van Dyke and Company.” Van Dyke’s show was canceled after 11 episodes.
Albert Records releases rock band AC/DC’s third studio album “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” in Australia and Europe.
The two day 100 Club Punk Festival began, igniting the careers of several influential punk and post-punk bands, arguably sparking the punk movement’s introduction into mainstream culture.
Major League Baseball:
The Angels turned back the Rangers, 1–0, with Nolan Ryan outdueling Bert Blyleven. The only run scored in the sixth when Tony Solaita walked, advanced on Bruce Bochte’s sacrifice and scored on a double by Terry Humphrey.
The Red Sox outmuscled the Tigers, 12–6, with Jim Rice hitting two home runs and Cecil Cooper and Dwight Evans one each. A seven-run uprising in the fourth inning featured Rice’s first homer, a two-run double by Carlton Fisk and two-run single by Cooper. Rusty Staub hit a homer for the Tigers with one aboard in the ninth.
The Brewers defeated the Yankees, 4–2, for only their second victory in 14 games. Rookie Dan Thomas’ solo home run in the fourth inning — his third since arriving from the Eastern League August 30 — proved to be the decisive blow. Graig Nettles hit his 29th homer, tops in the American League, in the second as the Yankees saw their five-game winning streak end.
The Pirates’ hopes of catching the Phillies in the National League East were jolted when rookie Lee Mazzilli hit a two-run homer with two out in the last of the ninth inning to give the Mets a 5–4 victory.
Texas Rangers 0, California Angels 1
Boston Red Sox 12, Detroit Tigers 6
New York Yankees 2, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, New York Mets 5
NFL Football:
The Oakland Raiders withstood a late Kansas City Chiefs rally to win, 24–21. Oakland jumped out to a 17–0 halftime lead on two Ken Stabler touchdown passes and a Fred Steinfort field goal but had to hang on as Mike Livingston guided Kansas City to two touchdowns in the last five minutes of the game. The Raider defense limited the Chiefs’ offense to 37 yards in the first half while Stabler engineered touchdown drives of 67 and 72 yards, picking up 288 yards and 16 first downs before intermission. Kansas City came back in the second half, scoring touchdowns on one-yard plunges by Livingston and MacArthur Lane and a 25-yard Livingston to Billy Masters pass, but Oakland got all the points it needed on a 14-yard Stabler to Mike Siani touchdown pass with 2:09 gone in the fourth period.
Oakland Raiders 24, Kansas City Chiefs 21
Despite an early show of strength resulting from prime-rate reductions by two major banks, stock prices closed mixed in slower trading with the Dow Jones industrial average off by 0.59 at 994.51. Bond prices declined despite the lowering of the prime rate by two major banks.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 994.51 (-0.59, -0.06%)
Born:
Jon Bernthal, American TV actor (“The Walking Dead”; “The Punisher”) in Washington, District of Columbia.
Suchita Trivedi, Indian TV actress and comedian (“Baa Bahoo Aur Baby”), in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
Enuka Okuma, Canadian TV actress (“Madison”, “Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye”, “Rookie Blue”), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Ainsley Earhardt, American TV host and author (“Fox and Friends”), in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Jan Hlaváč, Czech NHL left wing (New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks, Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Nashville Predators), in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Kevin Walker, MLB pitcher (San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox), in Irving, Texas.
Chris Ziemann, NFL tackle (New York Giants), in Aurora, Illinois.
Reuben Singh, British entrepreneur, CEO of alldayPA, in Poynton, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Kermit Bloomgarden, 71, American theatrical producer who brought numerous plays to Broadway, including “Death of a Salesman”, “The Diary of Anne Frank”, “The Music Man”, “Look Homeward”, “Angel”, and “Equus”.
Dr. Robert Allan Phillips, 70, American physician “whose research led to therapies that helped save the lives of hundreds of cholera victims.” Notably, Dr. Phillips led a team that developed a solution that patients could drink and which would become the standard therapy for cholera and similar diseases through rehydration and nutrition. As a result, the death rate from cholera dropped from 50 percent to only one percent.
Dan R. MacDonald, 65, Canadian composer who specialized in creating tunes designed to be performed as fiddle music rather than for the violin.
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